What is all the fascia about?

The presentations was very good with the use of well known athletes to emphases the points made of how some athletes can make great use of their fascia to produce movements.
I am thinking that a buzz word will start to appear called “fascial fitness:” which will consider the following;

• Use the slings of the body (i.e. bicep curls bench press are not big chain promoters)
• Use movements including a dynamic pre-stretch with proximal initiation
• Incorporate force and direction variation
• Use movements that work on elastic components – Stretch shortening programme using different motions of a speed
• Encourage a proprioceptive environment – i.e. avoid pattern overload like running in one direction.
• Incorporate pauses/rest to optimize hydration status
• Whole body movements (as the fascia is one big continuum)
• Be gentle changes can take yrs - excessive overload of structure might cause a negative shape stability affect. Significant fascial changes take 18-24 months to really set in. Convinced that the overwhelming majority of injuries in athletes are largely the result of mismanagement, whether it’s overuse, poor physical conditioning, or improper biomechanics especially in youth development. Poor management takes time to reach the threshold needed to cause symptoms. Mismanaged athletes can be injured in few months or years. The coaches may never actually appreciate the physical changes positively or negatively that are being set into action.
• Fascia will up regulate when muscle tissue is relaxed -

A big direction in the presentation was that it is considered that muscle tissue is reasonably understood and the need for fascia stimulation is greatly misunderstood in fitness.
Myers’ Quote - the entire extracellular matrix of the body – is remarkably overlooked when it comes to both posture and the development of pathology. He remarked that he doesn’t feel like we have 600+ muscles in the body; he feels like we have one muscle in 600+ fascial pockets because they are so interdependent. And, in this fascia, we have nine times as many sensory receptors as we’ve got in muscles.
As a Biomechanical performance coach we are not conventional what that means when someone has a knee problem – and normal treatment only consists of ice, rest, NSAIDs, and some knee band exercises or even surgery, it overlooks the fact that everything is linked and can be caused by a muscle spasm in the shoulder.

Debate:
The reduction in gross movement activities, may lead to the body to disconnect its self by laying down more fasica, pressure on the on the hamstring through sitting has show an increase in oestoblast activity causing the adductor Magnus (ischal tuberosity part) to become compromised.
Faulty loading patterns will increase fascia stiffness/thickening in areas/structures that may increase injury.
The time needed to adapt fascia can be yrs. Reality is that this should be encouraged in our youth
Overweight children increasing loads through activities are a bad idea.

Considerations that have been overlooked:
Intrinsic biomechanics – the primary solution ..............

Terms:
Mechanotransduction
Mechanotransduction refers to the process by which the body converts mechanical loading into cellular responses. These cellular responses, in turn, promote structural change. A classic example of mechanotransduction in action is bone adapting to load. A small, relatively weak bone can become larger and stronger in response to the appropriate load through the process of mechanotransduction.
Mechanotherapy was first defined in 1890 as “the employment of mechanical means for the cure of disease” (Oxford English Dictionary). We would update this to “the employment of mechanotransduction for the stimulation of tissue repair and remodelling.” This distinction highlights the cellular basis of exercise prescription for tissue healing and also recognises that injured and healthy tissues may respond differently to mechanical load. Databases and library searches did not reveal the term mechanotherapy being used in other ways in physical therapy.
Shape stability
Visco elastic
Ground reaction force
Bio tensegrity
Hydrostatic pressure